And the internship with Peitho.

Peithos relatively young digital presence and the recent move from newsletter to journal offers lots of possibilities for expanding the readership and access to the texts. I think the recent work in social media along with Peithos emphasis on students sets the journal and the coalition up to create connections between new and seasoned women scholars, ensuring it will continue to grow in the future. Since Peithos mission is to foster collaboration among scholars, the digitized issues and website have the potential to become the generative core space for these interactions. I have working knowedge of web platforms and design, which would allow me to do upadates and minor changes as the website continues to evolve. I would love the opportunity to get my hands in and become even more proficient in web design and coding languages. It might be useful to have someone on site that can manage the web presence. Marketing and promotion might be useful in the coming year to grow readership. As an editorial assistant, I would be interested in spreading the word and contacting faculty and university libraries to request access to Peitho. As of last week, Purdue Library could not return a hit on Peitho. Even as a semi-open source text, it needs to be on the radar for universities in order to benefit scholars. I have a lot of professional experience designing documents and marketing materials, particularly in the graduate admissions office in Mechanical Engineering. Added to that, my academic background in professional writing helped me fall even further in love with functional design. I am fluent in InDesign, but more than that, I adore working with the program, and would expect to spend happy hours working with it during this internship. I am very interested in contributing to this publication, but more than that, I want the opportunity to see the guts of academic publishing intimately. I will soon start to send my own articles out into the publishing nebulous; this internship would give me insight into the process and submission requirements, and also let me interact with female scholarship intimately. Since 591, Ive been fascinated by the varieties of scholarship and methodologies trending in CCC and Computers and Writing specifically. Our publications are the barometer for issues in the field, and it would be interesting to see how those trajectories operate from the inside. In Uganda, I met with some female-centric publishers who were often creating very sophisticated texts produced with little technology, but distributing it through activist networks to a large readership. I would like to further explore womens publishing practices as part of the 2016 Scotland Study Abroad trip. I think it would help me nestle post-industrial practices inside pre-industrial womens writing and publishing in generative ways. The Crouse stipend next year would be my seed money for the following summers Scotland Study Abroad trip.

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